Pioneer Traders Dyslexia Series

About this curriculum

The stories in this series follow the trappers and traders who worked their way across the vast unknown land that was the United States, opening the frontiers for the settlers who followed them. A Special Series of Books for Children Who Struggle to Read The first big business in the New World was fur trading. Trappers tramped all across the country, following the rivers into the great, unexplored wilderness, setting their traps and catching literally thousands of beavers. Once they had exhausted a local population of the animals, they’d move on, following another river until that, too, was stripped of all its beavers. Traders went out into the wilderness as well, taking goods to exchange for furs with both the trappers and the Native Americans who wanted to trade for items they could not get on their own, such as metal knives and hatchets, guns and ammunition, brightly-colored cloth, and ornaments and trinkets like glass beads, mirrors, and bells. There are plenty of controversial points that can be raised in a discussion of the early American trappers and trader…